CALL FOR CHAPTERS:  Fear as a Political Emotion: The Rise of New Violent Orders (Nova Science Publishers).

Maximiliano E Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina

Adrian Scribano, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Violent extremism can be very well interpreted in many ways. Over the recent years, populist and nationalist discourses have been flooded the political arena as never before. The turn of the twentieth century has brought unparalleled risks, such as political violence, chauvinism and terrorism. Doubtless, as some specialists alert, we live in an age of terror. At a closer look, the terrorist attacks to the WTC, in American soil, has inaugurated a new reign of terror that not only changed geopolitics but also governance globally. The reign of terror changed the original worker-owner relationships as well as the worker union regulation inside and outside the US. Besides, it created new emerging forms of domination based on media consumption and biotechnology. In the name of security, of citizens sacrificed their check and balance powers. As Adrian Scribano puts it, terrorism and authoritarian populism are inextricably interlinked simply because the politics of sensibilities of fear derogates the essence of democracy. The lumpen democracy, as well as populism is derived effects of terrorism. Originally, terrorism affected liberal democracy because it instilled fear as a new form of relation, but this begged as a more than interesting point. If terrorism wanted to expand fear, once fear has situated as a global commodity what is the mission of terrorism now?

The present book looks to interrogate different levels of operation of fear as well as the impact of terrorism in liberal democracy. What is more important, terrorism and political violence (extremism) is seen as a theory of cruelty, as a commodity, and a widespread emotionality. Additionally, the chapter interrogates in the rise of new left and right-wind populism widely supported by digital technologies. The world is changing, and of course is changing now towards unknown directions. The book discuses critically the different horizons and imprints of fear as a political emotion recently manipulated by populist discourses oriented to negate “the Other”. Fear as a political allegory speaks to us of a fractured world in crisis that structures the rise of new violent (autocratic) orders.

Book Chapters should be written in English, and cited in APA Style dotted with one abstract and five key words. The chapter should be duly accompanied with a short bio (no more than 100 words) as well as the signed copyright form. Please send the submission to mkorst@palermo.edu or mkorstanje76@gmail.com no later than October 20, 2025